John Dryden

SC contributed an elegy to The Nine Muses, the volume which Delarivier Manley edited on the death of John Dryden .

Perhaps JC 's most pressing concern here is with women's issues: Women live most part of their lives in the office of Nursing, either Parents Husbands or Children. She writes a story of A...

Congreve was twenty-one when on 22 December 1691 he licensed his first book, a short novel called Incognita: or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd, which was published the following year. He moved quickly into...

As a young man Congreve formed a friendship with the older and distinguished Dryden . He later belonged to the Whig Kit-Cat Club , and counted most of its members among his friends, while remaining...

She notes that poets have lived difficult and unappreciated lives, and that many have been forgotten. Quoting a remark by Pope (that time, which has made Chaucer unintelligible, will one day do the same with...

CD 's second novel, Wandering Fires (titled from John Dryden ), appeared the same year as Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow.

LED marked the death from smallpox of her elder grandson with Sions Lamentation, Lord Henry Hastings , His Funerals Blessing.

Its boldness in argument—seeking to lift women to an Equallity [sic] with men—may stem from its anonymity. It is also interesting as literary criticism, notably on Dryden , Wycherley , Congreve , and Locke

CAD 's volume of public poems composed as national Laureate, Ritual Lighting, with illustrations by Stephen Raw, was published to coincide with an exhibition of laureates' manuscripts at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh:...

They printed about 460 copies. The label on the wrapper survives in three different states, as did the label of the previous Hogarth edition of work by Eliot. The Woolfs were to print one more...

The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved...

The poems by CF include an Elegy on the Abrogation of the Birthnight Ball (her lament, in the person of an elderly beau, for the passing of the old-fashioned minuet: an orgy of grandiose parody...

AF was a constant source of scenes, burlesques, and improvisations for performance by the Women's Liberation Street Theatre Group . She also wrote for a number of underground or radical papers: Ink, Islington Gutter...

Dundee 's death, distressing news for Jacobites, drew a lament in Latin by Archibald Pitcairne , translated by Dryden .

The reception of this volume, dictated by Gethin's position as her father's only child and heir, and as an exemplary pattern of female excellence, rather than by consideration of the literary quality of her work...